Although it’s technically been online for a week, I just took a short pause before publicising the second episode of Data Materiality. Data Materiality is a podcast series I co-host with Joel McKim, and is related to our three-year research project running under the same name, co-sponsored by Birkbeck’s Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Media … Continue Reading
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Data Materiality Episode 1: Vicki Mayer on Data Centres, Media Aura and Jobs
At very long last, the first episode of Data Materiality is out. Data Materiality is a podcast series I co-host with Joel McKim, and is related to our three-year research project running under the same name, co-sponsored by Birkbeck’s Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Media and Culture and the Vasari Centre for Art and Technology. … Continue Reading
Ordinary Digital Humanities: Video of symposium with Lesley Gourlay, Grace Halden and Tim Markham
An edited video is now available for the ‘Ordinary Digital Humanities’ symposium that I organised during Birkbeck Arts Week in mid-May 2017. The event asked what might it mean to think about the digital humanities as ordinary, and focused on the implications of digitisation at the level of everyday academic life – beyond, or perhaps … Continue Reading
The identities and expressions of ‘academic Twitter’: presentation / live streaming
I just caught wind of a very interesting looking presentation taking place 3pm GMT today at the London School of Economics by Bonnie Stewart. Stewart will be discussing “the intersection of Twitter and higher education, and how ‘academic Twitter’ cultivates scholarly identities and forms of expression that differ from conventional institutional practices.” I have pasted … Continue Reading
Media practices and urban politics: a conversation about slow theory
As Clive Barnett (here, and in more detail here) and Stuart Elden (here) have already posted, the Society and Space open site has now released a podcast conversation between myself, Clive Barnett and Allan Cochrane, hosted by Tim Markham, about our paper recently published in the journal. In conjunction with the podcast being published, the … Continue Reading
Video now available for Conditions of Mediation preconference
Note: below you will find more specific links, through which you may advance to the remarks of specific speakers After much behind-the-scenes fidgeting and arranging, I’m happy to say we can finally make available an edited video recording of the two keynote symposiums from Conditions of Mediation, the ICA preconference I co-organized with Tim Markham, … Continue Reading
Being in the World: a screening and discussion
Next week, on Friday 7 June 2013, I will be hosting a screening and discussion of Being in the World (Tao Ruspoli | USA | 2010 | 81’) through Birkbeck’s Centre for Media, Culture and Creative Practice. Being in the World explores the intimate connections between skilful mastery and the ways in which humans beings … Continue Reading
Doreen Massey interview with Nigel Warburton
A number of peeps have already shared this: spatial theorist Doreen Massey speaks with Nigel Warburton, of Philosophy Bites fame, on spatial theory and why it matters (of course). It’s part of Social Science Bites, a new-ish series made in association with Sage. Two other interviews caught my attention: one with Toby Miller on what … Continue Reading
Stuart Hall film: The Unfinished Conversation
I must have been completely sleeping on this, but a film has been made about Stuart Hall, the Jamaican-born British media and cultural theorist, a key figure in the Birmingham School of Cultural Studies, and later, a Professor of Sociology at The Open University (I remember fondly, from my short time there, working in a … Continue Reading
New material from the Wittgenstein Archives
Wittgenstein heads out there might be interested to note that the Wittgenstein Archives at the University of Bergen (WAB) have made available a large numbers of papers and audio-visual materal (approximately 600 items in all) from the Kirchberg International Wittgenstein Symposia from the years 2001-2010, as well as from the Wittgenstein Archives publications series. The … Continue Reading